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COLUMBIA, MO. 65211
76th Year No. 26 Good Morning! It's Thursday, October 13, 1983 2 Sections 22 Pages 25 Cents
U. S. will review its Middle East policy
NawVoffcTlmaa
WASHINGTON President Reagan, in-sisting
obliquely that be had the authority to
keep VJ&. Marines in Lebanon without con-gressional
approval, Wednesday signed leg-islation
authorizing them to remain there for
18 more months.
Reagan's approval of the legislation came
as administration officials said they would
undertake the first high- fev- el review of all
Middle East policies in six months. The re-view
is to coincide with special envoy Robert
McFarlane's return to Washington.
Officials said they were looking toward re-building
what they called a " strategic"
relationship with Israel and for renewed in-terest
in the president's year- ol- d proposal
for the West Bank.
In signing the legislation authorizing the
Marines to stay m Lebanon, Reagan said his
differences with Congress over " institutional
prerogatives" were secondary to the need
lor congressional support for his Middle
East policies.
The president made his views known in a
written statement issued by the White House
Wednesday afternoon. In giving his approval
to the legislation, he said, " I do not and can-not
cede any of the authority vested in me
under the Constitution as president and as
commander in chief of United States armed
forces."
Reagan's disclaimers were rejected
Wednesday evening by Christopher Mat-thews,
a spokesman for House Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill. He said Reagan's signa-ture
was an acknowledgement of the need
for congressional authorization for the use of
troops in Lebanon.
Presidential aides earlier had made it
clear that Reagan would sign the landmark
legislation on Lebanon but would express
reservations about some parts of it and
would say that he did not feel bound by other
parts
fhe legislation Reagan signed was ap-proved
Sept. 29 after a prolonged debate
over presidential powers to commit troops
overseas. A few days earlier a cease- fir- e an-nounced
in Lebanon lifted some of Con-gress's
anxiety over the Marines' mission
and safety
The legislation declared that the War Pow-er
Act applied in Lebanon, requiring the
president to notify Congress when American
troops face hostilities and to bring them
home within 90 days unless Congress per-mits
them to stay
The Marines began taking hostile fire in
Lebanon on Aug 29, but Reagan refused to
declare that they were in hostilities under
the definition of the Act
In his subsequent negotiations with Con-gress,
Reagan won approval for the troops to
remain 18 months He also won the right to
be able to sign the legislation while disavow-ing
Congress's finding that the 90- d- ay with-drawal
requirement was valid.
neagan said he disagreed with the imposi-tion
of " arbitrary and inflexible deadlines"
on the use of troops in Lebanon, which he
said create " unwise limitations on presi-dential
authority to deploy United States
forces in the interests of United States na-tional
security."
The president also warned that his legis-lative
signing should not be viewed as " any
acknowledgement that the president's con-stitutional
authority can be impermissibly
infringed by statute." Nothing in the law he
signed Wednesday " may be interpreted to
revise the president's constitutional authori-ty
to deploy United States Armed forces."
It was not clear whether Reagan's strong
language would provoke any outcry on Capi-tol
Hill, where congressional leaders hailed
the passage of the legislation as signaling ex- -
actly what the president renounced
A recent administrative shift has aopared
with reference to the role of Israeli tnp; m
Lebanon A year ago, Reagan cordimned
the Israeli invasion, but more re' it' cffi
cials have come to speak of the Ir. u ! p- vs- enceasanec-essarv
counter umlitt Svna
Administration officials said thort was le- new- ed
interest in Reagan s peace plan tor
the West Bank, which was announced in Sep-tember
1982, as a wav of countering Soviet
influence in Svna and Lebanon
The peace plan called for Jordanian in
volvement in the negotiations on the future
of the West Bank Jordan refused to get in-volved
earlier this year because of opposi-tion
by the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion
Recently, the PLO leader, asser
Arafat, has been seen as weakened, suggest
ing to some that Reagan s plan can be
pushed again
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Crash aftermath
Boone County firefighters Dan McGavcck and Herb Stanley, in-side
car, checked for other victims Wednesday after an east- boun- d
Gremlin hit a guard ran on Interstate 70 and crossed four
Don HorHlteld
lanes of traffic before hitting an embankment Three people
were injured in the one- ca- r accident, which occurred between
the Huntsdale and Fayette exits.
Overtime pay,
long work day
' Goin' live' has its sacrifices
By Todd CopIIevitz and Kim Salmons
ilssourian staff writers
Capacity crowds, a late kick- of- f,
valuable television equipment and
portable lighting units will mean ad-ditional
security expenses as well as
inconveniences for some major ath-letic
contributors at Saturday's
gamp
Although ABC is paying the Big
Eight conference $ 12 million to
broadcast the game, University Ath-letic
Director Dave Hart will have to
pay for the nationwide coverage ot
the game in a personal way. Hart's
parking place is one of the dozen or
so select parking spaces outside the
stadium being taken up by portable
light units, Assistant Athletic Direc-tor
Dick Bestwick said Wednesday
The University also will pay for
additional security in more than $ 2,- 00- 0
of overtime salaries to police of-ficers,
cadets and watchmen by the
time the last fans leave Memorial
Stadium, University Police Maj
Jack Watnng said
Most of the inconveniences stem
from the 2.50 pjn. starting time re-quested
by ABC so the game can be
aired following its coverage of the
World Series By the time the game
finishes and traffic gets mov u it is
likely to be dark, Watring said
Missouri State Highwav Patrol
troopers who are responsible for
moving traffic out of the stadium
will have to break out their orange
vests and flashlights to help move
the sellout crowd out of the stadium
following the game, Sgt Bill Whiten
ersaid
Fans can expect to spend a little
more time silting in their cars
Whitener asks them to be patient
" They're just going to have to real-ize
like we do that it takes longer to
get 76,000 people out," he said
Whitener" s estimate of spectators
is about the number that packed into
the stadium m 1980 to watch the Mis- soun- Pe- nn
State game
University police, as usual will
have all officers, cadets and watch-men
working Saturdav But this
time thev will have to work longer
than normal since the gates to the
stadium open at 12 30 p m like thev
do when the game starts at 1 30 p m
Cadets will be called m start'ng a
See LIGHTS, Page 14A
Relief on the way for ore- registrati- on headaches
ByBarbToma
Mlaaourian atafi writer
It's an afl- too- famil- iar scene to the aver-age
University student. The mention of pre- registrat- ion
conjures up images of long
lines, too few course cards and a two- mon- th
wait before the student receives a final
schedule.
But if things go as planned, that scenario
wOl become just a memory as the University
system adopts a computerized online regis-tration
system.
In fact, online registration may replace
the current enrollment systems at all four
University campuses as early as next fall,
said Columbia Registrar Gary Smith. The
change has been considered for several
years.
A University- wid- e task force, composed of
two members from each campus, spent 1982
M- smfafri-g
various options and visiting col-leges
with on- lin- e systems to determine the
feasibility of developing a system that would
work on all four campuses.
The task force had four major tasks as--
signed by Vice President Melvm George :
To determine whether a common regis-tration
system could be developed that
would meet the needs of all four campuses.
To do preliminary work on providing an
estimate of development costs and tune
frame for development.
To estimate the benefits of such a sys-tem
to the institution.
To estimate operating costs of the new
system compared with the operating costs of
current methods.
David Wollershenn, professor of mechani-cal
engineering and one of two UMC faculty
members on the task force, said the evalua-tion
process was difficult because all four
campuses had to be integrated.
" There are a tremendous number of dif-ferences
in how each campus registers," he
said. " UMSL and UMKC dont have our
problems of filled classes, and St. Louis
doesrft even give its students a choice of
tunes"
The task force determined that an on- li- ne
system was feasible and prepared a report
for review by the University's central ad-ministration.
The administrators liked what
they saw. Since then a four- camp- us steering
committee has appointed various advisory
groups to deal with issues and problems
unique to each campus during the devel-opment
stage.
Roger Harting, director of the School of
Health Related Professions, serves as chair-man
of the UMC academic advisory group. A
subcommittee comprised of Harting,
Wollersheim and Ted Tarkow, associate
dean of the College of Arts and Science,
meets weekly to discuss related issues
Harting said much work still needs to be
done to answer questions such as when and
where to hold registration, how to handle
adding and dropping of classes and section
changes and who should get priority regis-tration.
Some of those issues were discussed
Wednesday afternoon when all 18 members
of the campus academic advisory group met
for the first time. Suggestions and ideas
gathered from this meeting will be sub-mitted
by Harting to the University- wid- e
academic group later this fall
The development process is complicated
because the University wants an on- li- ne sys-tem
that can be linked with the cashier's of-fice,
the Office of Financial Aids and the Of-fice
of Residential Die.
" We want the student to be able to walk
into the registration area and within five
minutes walk out with an idea of what his fi-nancial
aid status is, what his fees are,
where he is going to live and what his class
schedule will be," Harting said.
Wollersheim said he tnes to represent the
student view on the committee. " The regis-tration
process is for students," he said
" The bottom line is that we need something
as simple, accurate and fast as possible. ' '
He said that under the on- li- ne system a
student still would need to meet with an ad-viser
to select appropriate courses At an as-signed
time, the student would meet with a
terminal operator who would punch in the
student's selections, and the available
courses would be immediately visible If a
desired section was filled, the student and
terminal operator could find an alternate
time
Wollersheim estimates that the entire
process would take about five minutes per
student, and that approximately 200 students
would register per hour Early registration
would sell be held in October and March, but
could last as long as six weeks The Univ ersi- t- y
also is considering some type of program
to encourage students to go through the early
registration process
University administrators have decided
that now is the right time for change Not
only will the card- sortin- g machines nec-essary
for batch registration be phased out
by International Business Machines Corp in
the next several jears, but both students and
faculty members have expressed dissatis-faction
with current systems
" We don't want to get caught in a crunch,"
Harting said " The costs of development are
high, but the long- ter- m benefits will great!
outweigh the costs "
Union, UMC differ on comp time- overti- me incident
By Jama V. Qrimsldi
Mlascdtian ta writar
University administrators in the Office of
Campus Facilities have violated a union con-tract
by giving employees compensation time
to avoidpaying overtime, a union official
charged Wednesday.
The University denied the charge in a pre-pared
statement by R. Kenneth Hutchinson,
assistant vice president for personnel. His ac-count
of the incident involved differs from that
given by the union official and the workers
themselves.
Three carpenters and a driver who worked
Saturday and Sunday said they have been
given compensatory time off this week instead
of overtime pay. Although the men agreed to
the arrangement, it is an explicit violation of
an agreement with Public Service Employees
Local Union 45, said union Business Manager
Mitchell Bannett.
Asked to respond, Hutchinson said in the
statement Wednesday the employees would be
paid overtime for the Saturday work. It is not
clear whether the men will get overtime for
the Sunday work or whether they will be paid
for the the three days they took off tins week.
The men said that under their original
agreement they were to be paid for a full 40
hours work this week to make up for the three
daysoff.
" They've cut a. special deal, ignoring me as
the exclusive representative of the employ-ees,"
Bennett said.
The men Billy Cook, Arthur HoOiday, Les-lie
Loyd and Eddie Sapp were not forced to
take the days off instead of the overtime,
which they earned while working on the re-moval
and replacement of windows at Lefevre
Hall. The job must be completed by Nov. 15.
The men said they agreed to take off Mon-day,
Tuesday and Wednesday instead of get-ting
time- and- a- ha- lf overtime pay for the
weekend. But this could establish a dangerous
precedent, Bennett said.
" If they do it this time and they get away
with it, then in the future they will try it
again," Bennett said. " The administrators
have given them an option they didnt have."
" There's pros and cons to it," said Sapp, who
agreed to the special deal. " To me, I could use
the extra days off At other times it would
be a different story."
Cook said he would rather have the days off
than the money and does not see a problem
with making the special arrangement
The union will demand that the University
pay the men overtime for the weekend work
and full tune for normal working hours on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Bennett
said. He also said he plans to file a grievance
with the University.
Hutchinson said the University work week
runs from Sunday through Saturday, so eight
hours of the work that performed on Satur-day
would constitute overtime.
He said: " Four campus facilities employees
were scheduled to work Saturday, Oct 8, and
Sunday, Oct 9 This work resulted in all
four working eight hours overtime status for
the week of Oct 2-- 8. All employees will receive
overtime compensation for their work in ex-cess
of 40 hours. This week's scheduling of re-duced
hours for the four individuals was in the
best interests of the department and the em-ployees."
The employees, however, said they have
heard nothing about being paid overtime In-stead,
they were told they would receive three
days off, Monday through Wednesday, in com-pensation
for their weekend work
Employees in the carpenter shop told both
Bennett and a Columbia Missourian reporter
that the four men would not be at work until
Thursday.
Director of Campus Faculties Gaetano Rus- s- o
refused to respond to inquiries about the
matter.
The men's time cards had been punched in
on Monday morning and evening and Tuesday
morning, even though they had not arrived at
work. Their Monday lunch tune also had been
punched on the time cards By Wednesday
morning the time cards had been removed
from their usual location, Bennett said
The agreement between the union and the
University does not allow compensatory time
off in lieu of overtime.
!
Movers
& Shakers
Many of Columbia's leading
citizens have volunteered to
spend part of this morning
selling newspapers on Colum-bia
street corners
iney are selling the fourth
annual Movers & Shakers edi-tion
Proceeds go to the Co-lumbia
Art League, which lost
its office and its permanent
collection in a downtown fire
this summer
The cost of the newspaper is
whatever citizens are willing
to contribute
So, if you see someone who
looks a bit old to be hawking
Missounans, don't just pass on
by Buy a paper and help the
Art League.

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COLUMBIA, MO. 65211
76th Year No. 26 Good Morning! It's Thursday, October 13, 1983 2 Sections 22 Pages 25 Cents
U. S. will review its Middle East policy
NawVoffcTlmaa
WASHINGTON President Reagan, in-sisting
obliquely that be had the authority to
keep VJ&. Marines in Lebanon without con-gressional
approval, Wednesday signed leg-islation
authorizing them to remain there for
18 more months.
Reagan's approval of the legislation came
as administration officials said they would
undertake the first high- fev- el review of all
Middle East policies in six months. The re-view
is to coincide with special envoy Robert
McFarlane's return to Washington.
Officials said they were looking toward re-building
what they called a " strategic"
relationship with Israel and for renewed in-terest
in the president's year- ol- d proposal
for the West Bank.
In signing the legislation authorizing the
Marines to stay m Lebanon, Reagan said his
differences with Congress over " institutional
prerogatives" were secondary to the need
lor congressional support for his Middle
East policies.
The president made his views known in a
written statement issued by the White House
Wednesday afternoon. In giving his approval
to the legislation, he said, " I do not and can-not
cede any of the authority vested in me
under the Constitution as president and as
commander in chief of United States armed
forces."
Reagan's disclaimers were rejected
Wednesday evening by Christopher Mat-thews,
a spokesman for House Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill. He said Reagan's signa-ture
was an acknowledgement of the need
for congressional authorization for the use of
troops in Lebanon.
Presidential aides earlier had made it
clear that Reagan would sign the landmark
legislation on Lebanon but would express
reservations about some parts of it and
would say that he did not feel bound by other
parts
fhe legislation Reagan signed was ap-proved
Sept. 29 after a prolonged debate
over presidential powers to commit troops
overseas. A few days earlier a cease- fir- e an-nounced
in Lebanon lifted some of Con-gress's
anxiety over the Marines' mission
and safety
The legislation declared that the War Pow-er
Act applied in Lebanon, requiring the
president to notify Congress when American
troops face hostilities and to bring them
home within 90 days unless Congress per-mits
them to stay
The Marines began taking hostile fire in
Lebanon on Aug 29, but Reagan refused to
declare that they were in hostilities under
the definition of the Act
In his subsequent negotiations with Con-gress,
Reagan won approval for the troops to
remain 18 months He also won the right to
be able to sign the legislation while disavow-ing
Congress's finding that the 90- d- ay with-drawal
requirement was valid.
neagan said he disagreed with the imposi-tion
of " arbitrary and inflexible deadlines"
on the use of troops in Lebanon, which he
said create " unwise limitations on presi-dential
authority to deploy United States
forces in the interests of United States na-tional
security."
The president also warned that his legis-lative
signing should not be viewed as " any
acknowledgement that the president's con-stitutional
authority can be impermissibly
infringed by statute." Nothing in the law he
signed Wednesday " may be interpreted to
revise the president's constitutional authori-ty
to deploy United States Armed forces."
It was not clear whether Reagan's strong
language would provoke any outcry on Capi-tol
Hill, where congressional leaders hailed
the passage of the legislation as signaling ex- -
actly what the president renounced
A recent administrative shift has aopared
with reference to the role of Israeli tnp; m
Lebanon A year ago, Reagan cordimned
the Israeli invasion, but more re' it' cffi
cials have come to speak of the Ir. u ! p- vs- enceasanec-essarv
counter umlitt Svna
Administration officials said thort was le- new- ed
interest in Reagan s peace plan tor
the West Bank, which was announced in Sep-tember
1982, as a wav of countering Soviet
influence in Svna and Lebanon
The peace plan called for Jordanian in
volvement in the negotiations on the future
of the West Bank Jordan refused to get in-volved
earlier this year because of opposi-tion
by the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion
Recently, the PLO leader, asser
Arafat, has been seen as weakened, suggest
ing to some that Reagan s plan can be
pushed again
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Crash aftermath
Boone County firefighters Dan McGavcck and Herb Stanley, in-side
car, checked for other victims Wednesday after an east- boun- d
Gremlin hit a guard ran on Interstate 70 and crossed four
Don HorHlteld
lanes of traffic before hitting an embankment Three people
were injured in the one- ca- r accident, which occurred between
the Huntsdale and Fayette exits.
Overtime pay,
long work day
' Goin' live' has its sacrifices
By Todd CopIIevitz and Kim Salmons
ilssourian staff writers
Capacity crowds, a late kick- of- f,
valuable television equipment and
portable lighting units will mean ad-ditional
security expenses as well as
inconveniences for some major ath-letic
contributors at Saturday's
gamp
Although ABC is paying the Big
Eight conference $ 12 million to
broadcast the game, University Ath-letic
Director Dave Hart will have to
pay for the nationwide coverage ot
the game in a personal way. Hart's
parking place is one of the dozen or
so select parking spaces outside the
stadium being taken up by portable
light units, Assistant Athletic Direc-tor
Dick Bestwick said Wednesday
The University also will pay for
additional security in more than $ 2,- 00- 0
of overtime salaries to police of-ficers,
cadets and watchmen by the
time the last fans leave Memorial
Stadium, University Police Maj
Jack Watnng said
Most of the inconveniences stem
from the 2.50 pjn. starting time re-quested
by ABC so the game can be
aired following its coverage of the
World Series By the time the game
finishes and traffic gets mov u it is
likely to be dark, Watring said
Missouri State Highwav Patrol
troopers who are responsible for
moving traffic out of the stadium
will have to break out their orange
vests and flashlights to help move
the sellout crowd out of the stadium
following the game, Sgt Bill Whiten
ersaid
Fans can expect to spend a little
more time silting in their cars
Whitener asks them to be patient
" They're just going to have to real-ize
like we do that it takes longer to
get 76,000 people out," he said
Whitener" s estimate of spectators
is about the number that packed into
the stadium m 1980 to watch the Mis- soun- Pe- nn
State game
University police, as usual will
have all officers, cadets and watch-men
working Saturdav But this
time thev will have to work longer
than normal since the gates to the
stadium open at 12 30 p m like thev
do when the game starts at 1 30 p m
Cadets will be called m start'ng a
See LIGHTS, Page 14A
Relief on the way for ore- registrati- on headaches
ByBarbToma
Mlaaourian atafi writer
It's an afl- too- famil- iar scene to the aver-age
University student. The mention of pre- registrat- ion
conjures up images of long
lines, too few course cards and a two- mon- th
wait before the student receives a final
schedule.
But if things go as planned, that scenario
wOl become just a memory as the University
system adopts a computerized online regis-tration
system.
In fact, online registration may replace
the current enrollment systems at all four
University campuses as early as next fall,
said Columbia Registrar Gary Smith. The
change has been considered for several
years.
A University- wid- e task force, composed of
two members from each campus, spent 1982
M- smfafri-g
various options and visiting col-leges
with on- lin- e systems to determine the
feasibility of developing a system that would
work on all four campuses.
The task force had four major tasks as--
signed by Vice President Melvm George :
To determine whether a common regis-tration
system could be developed that
would meet the needs of all four campuses.
To do preliminary work on providing an
estimate of development costs and tune
frame for development.
To estimate the benefits of such a sys-tem
to the institution.
To estimate operating costs of the new
system compared with the operating costs of
current methods.
David Wollershenn, professor of mechani-cal
engineering and one of two UMC faculty
members on the task force, said the evalua-tion
process was difficult because all four
campuses had to be integrated.
" There are a tremendous number of dif-ferences
in how each campus registers," he
said. " UMSL and UMKC dont have our
problems of filled classes, and St. Louis
doesrft even give its students a choice of
tunes"
The task force determined that an on- li- ne
system was feasible and prepared a report
for review by the University's central ad-ministration.
The administrators liked what
they saw. Since then a four- camp- us steering
committee has appointed various advisory
groups to deal with issues and problems
unique to each campus during the devel-opment
stage.
Roger Harting, director of the School of
Health Related Professions, serves as chair-man
of the UMC academic advisory group. A
subcommittee comprised of Harting,
Wollersheim and Ted Tarkow, associate
dean of the College of Arts and Science,
meets weekly to discuss related issues
Harting said much work still needs to be
done to answer questions such as when and
where to hold registration, how to handle
adding and dropping of classes and section
changes and who should get priority regis-tration.
Some of those issues were discussed
Wednesday afternoon when all 18 members
of the campus academic advisory group met
for the first time. Suggestions and ideas
gathered from this meeting will be sub-mitted
by Harting to the University- wid- e
academic group later this fall
The development process is complicated
because the University wants an on- li- ne sys-tem
that can be linked with the cashier's of-fice,
the Office of Financial Aids and the Of-fice
of Residential Die.
" We want the student to be able to walk
into the registration area and within five
minutes walk out with an idea of what his fi-nancial
aid status is, what his fees are,
where he is going to live and what his class
schedule will be," Harting said.
Wollersheim said he tnes to represent the
student view on the committee. " The regis-tration
process is for students," he said
" The bottom line is that we need something
as simple, accurate and fast as possible. ' '
He said that under the on- li- ne system a
student still would need to meet with an ad-viser
to select appropriate courses At an as-signed
time, the student would meet with a
terminal operator who would punch in the
student's selections, and the available
courses would be immediately visible If a
desired section was filled, the student and
terminal operator could find an alternate
time
Wollersheim estimates that the entire
process would take about five minutes per
student, and that approximately 200 students
would register per hour Early registration
would sell be held in October and March, but
could last as long as six weeks The Univ ersi- t- y
also is considering some type of program
to encourage students to go through the early
registration process
University administrators have decided
that now is the right time for change Not
only will the card- sortin- g machines nec-essary
for batch registration be phased out
by International Business Machines Corp in
the next several jears, but both students and
faculty members have expressed dissatis-faction
with current systems
" We don't want to get caught in a crunch,"
Harting said " The costs of development are
high, but the long- ter- m benefits will great!
outweigh the costs "
Union, UMC differ on comp time- overti- me incident
By Jama V. Qrimsldi
Mlascdtian ta writar
University administrators in the Office of
Campus Facilities have violated a union con-tract
by giving employees compensation time
to avoidpaying overtime, a union official
charged Wednesday.
The University denied the charge in a pre-pared
statement by R. Kenneth Hutchinson,
assistant vice president for personnel. His ac-count
of the incident involved differs from that
given by the union official and the workers
themselves.
Three carpenters and a driver who worked
Saturday and Sunday said they have been
given compensatory time off this week instead
of overtime pay. Although the men agreed to
the arrangement, it is an explicit violation of
an agreement with Public Service Employees
Local Union 45, said union Business Manager
Mitchell Bannett.
Asked to respond, Hutchinson said in the
statement Wednesday the employees would be
paid overtime for the Saturday work. It is not
clear whether the men will get overtime for
the Sunday work or whether they will be paid
for the the three days they took off tins week.
The men said that under their original
agreement they were to be paid for a full 40
hours work this week to make up for the three
daysoff.
" They've cut a. special deal, ignoring me as
the exclusive representative of the employ-ees,"
Bennett said.
The men Billy Cook, Arthur HoOiday, Les-lie
Loyd and Eddie Sapp were not forced to
take the days off instead of the overtime,
which they earned while working on the re-moval
and replacement of windows at Lefevre
Hall. The job must be completed by Nov. 15.
The men said they agreed to take off Mon-day,
Tuesday and Wednesday instead of get-ting
time- and- a- ha- lf overtime pay for the
weekend. But this could establish a dangerous
precedent, Bennett said.
" If they do it this time and they get away
with it, then in the future they will try it
again," Bennett said. " The administrators
have given them an option they didnt have."
" There's pros and cons to it," said Sapp, who
agreed to the special deal. " To me, I could use
the extra days off At other times it would
be a different story."
Cook said he would rather have the days off
than the money and does not see a problem
with making the special arrangement
The union will demand that the University
pay the men overtime for the weekend work
and full tune for normal working hours on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Bennett
said. He also said he plans to file a grievance
with the University.
Hutchinson said the University work week
runs from Sunday through Saturday, so eight
hours of the work that performed on Satur-day
would constitute overtime.
He said: " Four campus facilities employees
were scheduled to work Saturday, Oct 8, and
Sunday, Oct 9 This work resulted in all
four working eight hours overtime status for
the week of Oct 2-- 8. All employees will receive
overtime compensation for their work in ex-cess
of 40 hours. This week's scheduling of re-duced
hours for the four individuals was in the
best interests of the department and the em-ployees."
The employees, however, said they have
heard nothing about being paid overtime In-stead,
they were told they would receive three
days off, Monday through Wednesday, in com-pensation
for their weekend work
Employees in the carpenter shop told both
Bennett and a Columbia Missourian reporter
that the four men would not be at work until
Thursday.
Director of Campus Faculties Gaetano Rus- s- o
refused to respond to inquiries about the
matter.
The men's time cards had been punched in
on Monday morning and evening and Tuesday
morning, even though they had not arrived at
work. Their Monday lunch tune also had been
punched on the time cards By Wednesday
morning the time cards had been removed
from their usual location, Bennett said
The agreement between the union and the
University does not allow compensatory time
off in lieu of overtime.
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